Maxx Crosby

[Rubes]

All I want is for us to grab a difference maker on defense and then go out and have a 1985 Chicago Bears-style season next year to close out the Ralph.

 

Is that asking too much???

 

 

 

Edited February 6 by Rubes

[3rdand12]

Maxx Crosby: I’ve had doubts in past, but this is the most optimistic I’ve been about Raiders

 

PFT today

 there is more if you go look

Edited February 7 by 3rdand12

[Richard Noggin]

The Crosby V. Mahomes montage going around online (where he's getting under Patty's skin by doing basically nothing in the larger context of pro football) is enough to put him at the top of my Bills fan wishlist. That kind of petty competitive juice is sorely needed. 

 

Oh, the NFL is tilting the field in favor of the Chiefs?! Then get a guy who can chase Mahomes uphill. 

[Generic_Bills_Fan]

8 hours ago, Rubes said:

All I want is for us to grab a difference maker on defense and then go out and have a 1985 Chicago Bears-style season next year to close out the Ralph.

 

Is that asking too much???

 

 

 

Need them to stay healthy too 😂. We seem to be missing our best defensive player pretty much every time we see the chiefs in the playoffs and the chiefs have been freakishly healthy the last few years.  

 

that benford injury was absolutely devastating. if he was announced out leading up to the game I don’t think anyone would’ve predicted a bills win even on these boards 

Edited February 7 by Generic_Bills_Fan

[BillsShredder83]

On 1/31/2025 at 4:49 PM, jaybeezee said:

 Proof is in the pudding. We have 2- pro bowlers on offense and none even close on defense. AJ, Boogie, Elam, Groot, Oliver have all been here multiple years and not one pro-bowl. 

 

The last probowler we drafted on defense was Tre, and Beane didnt draft him, so again, show me each and everyone of the players Beane has drafted stats, not these skewed numbers from PFR.

 

And my original argument is that he has failed in the early rounds of the draft since hes been here, outside of Josh and Cook, which are both on offense.

pro bowl is such a funny way to defend your take lol

On 1/31/2025 at 6:19 PM, JGMcD2 said:

Copy and paste from another thread because it’s just clowns regurgitating the same *****, so maybe I should too:

 

PRO BOWL?! You're seriously citing the PRO BOWL? Russell Wilson was named to the Pro Bowl this year - what a credible way to evaluate his performance. 

 

You're flat-out wrong about Buffalo. I can name players too! CB Taron Johnson—All-Pro—taken in the 4th round in 2019. "D captain Nick Bolton"? How about D captain Terrel Bernard, whom Buffalo found in the 3rd round in 2022. Spencer Brown (3rd round), James Cook (2nd round) and Christian Benford (6th round). Should I continue? Because I can.

 

Now, let's not even start on Trey Smith. He was a consensus top-3 round talent, but teams took him off their boards due to medical concerns. Want to tell me how medical evaluations work in pro sports? Be my guest—I promise one of us actually knows, and the other doesn’t.

 

You want to call Greg Rousseau a reach at 30? Cool. What a wild way to evaluate someone who was a top-10 edge rusher in 2024. Speaking of "reaches," how’s Kingsley Suamataia doing? Didn’t he get benched for three different LT options? What’s Felix Anudike-Uzomah up to? His first two seasons are worse than Boogie Basham’s. But go ahead, hype up drafting Skyy Moore and Clyde Edwards-Helaire while you're at it. 
 

Fans like me can think rationally instead of spinning narratives to cope with not being Kansas City. Newsflash: I want to win too. I actually agree—good is the enemy of great. But that’s not the issue here. The real conversation? All-Time is the enemy of great. That’s the part you just can’t comprehend.

Care to expand on this for a curious mind?

[JGMcD2]

1 hour ago, BillsShredder83 said:

Care to expand on this for a curious mind?

Athletic Training Staff

 

This team manages the day-to-day health and medical needs of the players and staff within the facility.

• Nathan Breske – Head Athletic Trainer
  • Numerous administrative duties
  • Coordinates with doctors, surgeons, HR, and insurance
  • Leads medical reviews ahead of the draft
  • Flags any medical concerns from player reports (NFL, Combine, College)
• Denny Kellington – Associate Head Athletic Trainer
• Tabani Richards & Marissa Figueroa – Assistant Athletic Trainer
  • Likely the most hands-on with players
  • Responsible for treatments, rehab, and daily medical care

Team Doctors

 

These are practicing medical professionals who dedicate time to working with the team. Their primary responsibility is to assess flagged medical concerns and provide final determinations on player health.

• Leslie Bisson, MD – Head Team Physician (Leads the group)
• Thomas White, MD
• Andrew Cappuccino, MD
• Marc Fineberg, MD
• Mark Kim, DO
• Joseph Kowalski, MD
• William Wind, MD

Medical Review & Decision Process

1. The Athletic Training Staff collects and reviews player medicals from various sources (NFL, Combine, Colleges).
2. Nathan Breske identifies and flags any concerns.
3. The flagged cases are escalated to Dr. Bisson (Head Team Physician) for further review.
4. The Team Doctors make the final decision on a player’s medical status.
5. If a doctor is uncomfortable with a player’s medicals, the team typically defers to their judgment in decision-making.

 

This structure ensures a collaborative process where athletic trainers handle daily player care, while team doctors have the final say on medical concerns, especially those impacting roster decisions.

[TheFunPolice]

Love the player, but these kinds of blockbuster trades almost never work out for the team getting the player. 

 

You have to give up so much and all it takes is an injury and you're screwed. 

 

I'd rather find someone in FA and hit on DL in the draft unless the price was reasonable, which, why would it be?

[BillsFanForever19]

Hopefully this isn't an indication that he's been told he isn't going anywhere....

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/maxx-crosby-ive-had-doubts-in-past-but-this-is-the-most-optimistic-ive-been-about-raiders

[LABILLBACKER]

12 hours ago, TheFunPolice said:

Love the player, but these kinds of blockbuster trades almost never work out for the team getting the player. 

 

You have to give up so much and all it takes is an injury and you're screwed. 

 

I'd rather find someone in FA and hit on DL in the draft unless the price was reasonable, which, why would it be?

For 8 years we've swung and missed on a game wrecking DLineman.  The only other option is go after Koonce and overpay for Rousseau.  I trust a motivated Maxx over these other options. 

[Thrivefourfive]

On 2/6/2025 at 2:42 PM, Rubes said:

All I want is for us to grab a difference maker on defense and then go out and have a 1985 Chicago Bears-style season next year to close out the Ralph.

 

Is that asking too much???

 

 

 

It’s not. Is it asking too much to hit the Time Machine and do your plan this season so 2025 at the Rich will be 10/11 more SB celebrations?

[BillsFanForever19]

26 minutes ago, LABILLBACKER said:

For 8 years we've swung and missed on a game wrecking DLineman.  The only other option is go after Koonce and overpay for Rousseau.  I trust a motivated Maxx over these other options. 

 

I don't get all the talk about Malcolm Koonce. He has a total of 11 starts in 3 years and is coming off a torn ACL where he hasn't played a down since 12/31/23. If the guy didn't go to UB, no one would be mentioning him.

[JerseyBills]

10 hours ago, BillsFanForever19 said:

Hopefully this isn't an indication that he's been told he isn't going anywhere....

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/maxx-crosby-ive-had-doubts-in-past-but-this-is-the-most-optimistic-ive-been-about-raiders

🤔

 

Would love this dude in this locker room 

Edited February 8 by JerseyBills

[Dukestreetking]

21 hours ago, JGMcD2 said:

Team Doctors

 

These are practicing medical professionals who dedicate time to working with the team. Their primary responsibility is to assess flagged medical concerns and provide final determinations on player health.

• Leslie Bisson, MD – Head Team Physician (Leads the group)
• Thomas White, MD
• Andrew Cappuccino, MD
• Marc Fineberg, MD
• Mark Kim, DO
• Joseph Kowalski, MD
• William Wind, MD

 

Thanks for this insight into training/med staff.

 

Of the Drs, I only know William Wind (his team worked on my knee). Great surgeon, great guy.

 

Side story: SB-era Bills chief Orthopedist was Richard Weiss, a sort of pioneer in ACL reconstruction. As a teen, he did mine; Dr Wind (noted above) was really impressed how well it held up.

[Thurman#1]

On 1/28/2025 at 1:20 AM, Yobogoya! said:

Pretty sure McD has only gotten a single 10 sack season out of just one player— Leonard Floyd last year. 
 

Scheme and design must have at least a little something to do with that. That and his trademark “rotation” for maximum “freshness”. 

 

 

What great sack artists has this scheme neutered?

 

I must've missed all the great players leaving and becoming so much better elsewhere.

 

Rotation is what the NFL does these days. It's not a Buffalo thing. Chris Jones played 68% of snaps last year and 71% this year. Karlaftis 69% and 76% this year. Welcome to the NFL. This argument ended like ten years ago.

 

Edited February 9 by Thurman#1

[Thurman#1]

Anyway, sorry to drag things back into the past.

 

I can't see the Raiders letting him go or the Bills paying what it would take, myself.

 

Love the guy. Great player. I'd love to see him here but seems a really small possibility to me. Hope you're all right and I'm wrong.

[Straight Hucklebuck]

On 1/27/2025 at 11:31 AM, BADOLBILZ said:

 

Yeah Crosby is a wide-9 type guy.  He needs space to operate at the level we are accustomed to seeing.  Myles Garrett is the guy who could still make hay in the Bills tighter splits.  He can dominate in a phone booth.    

 

All that said,  they are good enough defensively to rope-a-dope with the Chiefs or Ravens they just lack the horses in the passing game.   Kincaid was supposed to be the guy but he is soft as baby sh!t.  Makes Mike Gesicki look like Mark Bavaro.  Coleman is a project because he can't separate and has to play out of position on the boundary.  Shakir isn't physically capable of being a WR1 despite his great effort. Two straight years Allen had the ball in his hands with a chance to choke the f#cking Chiefs out and instead they choked themselves out because they couldn't make plays in the passing game when needed.

This is closer to how I see it.

 

Since 2019 this GM drafts like he doesn’t know Josh Allen is on the team. 
 

He’s got it in his head that rag-tag, Rudy Reutigger underdogs are good enough for Allen to constantly lift up. 
 

Whatever that Kincaid pick was supposed to be - it’s been a giant flop. How could that guy not get 2-yards on 3rd down? 
 

Allen just competed his 7th season in Buffalo and he’s never had a real deep threat once in his career.

 

For a QB that is 6’5” and has a rocket arm - not one established, consistent, good deep threat. 

18 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:

Anyway, sorry to drag things back into the past.

 

I can't see the Raiders letting him go or the Bills paying what it would take, myself.

 

Love the guy. Great player. I'd love to see him here but seems a really small possibility to me. Hope you're all right and I'm wrong.

Cap space is the problem once again.

 

For me it’s less about the Draft capital and more about the Bills are -$11M again (29th) in cap space.

 

So it’s the usual restructuring of contracts that limits the Bills to low end Free Agents. 
 

And we all heard Beane, this team is going to extend their own guys first which dwindles that pool even more. 
 

With Garrett or Crosby that would be the Bills one move because it will eat every dollar they could manage seemingly. 

[Yobogoya!]

52 minutes ago, Thurman#1 said:

 

 

What great sack artists has this scheme neutered?

 

 

I think it's less about McDermott's scheme "neutering" a great player, and more that he doesn't scheme up anything particularly impressive.

 

Belichick got 10+ sack seasons out of such vaunted names as Marc Anderson and Tulla Banta-Cain. Maybe it's not fair to compare McD to one of the best defensive minds of all time, but do you really think he hasn't left at least something on the table with the talent he's had to work with?

 

Does Belichick get 10+ sacks out of Rousseau? Does Spags? Rousseau might not ever be a world beater but if its possible for a coordinator in this league to scheme up pressure from Tulla Banta-Cain, it's fair to wonder out loud if McDermott just isn't that great at min/max'ing our pass rush talent.

 

And if we drop someone like Maxx Crosby on this team and the pass rush improves, does McDermott deserve credit for that? Or are you saying there's just nothing these coordinators can do? I'm honestly asking, cuz if that's the case then we should almost never be questioning scheme, we should only be questioning the talent... right?